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& entrenchments wherever you look. It is simply marvellous that our armies have been able to advance at all, & they have simply blasted them out of it & occupied their positions.
It gave me a pang when I saw the Canadian Scottish marching through Albert with shells tearing all round & it seems such a shame that such fine men should be sacrificing their lives in thousands & as the grave yards will tell you
for the sins and errors of Kaiser Bill.
Great news is coming through from the Balkans but a reserve must be placed on a lot of it as some of it is of a startling rumour . None of us quite know how the Roumanian situation will affect this front but our conversations always get heated & we knock off.
2.9.16 Saturday
Today has held many surprises in store and I suppose when you get notification of what I am doing, it will surprise you, but circumstances coupled with overwork strain and worry decides me in taking the step, Also a promise of promotion in the near future, I will narrate the conversation as it actually occurred.
"On being told that several Commissions